Laraine Newman plays Sherry, a stereotypical naive valley girl. Lorne Michaels described the characters as the type of Muppets that can stay up late.Ĭhevy Chase plays a shark attempting to lure his way into a victim's home. Puppet sketch starring Jim Henson's Muppets, King Ploobis (performed by Jim Henson), Queen Peuta (performed by Alice Tweedie), Scred (performed by Jerry Nelson), Vazh (performed by Fran Brill), Wisss (performed by Richard Hunt), and the Mighty Favog (performed by Frank Oz). However, the cast and crew quickly became tired of them, and the Bees only appeared three more times during the original cast's five-year tenure. The bees were a staple of the first season, appearing 11 times. Much of the humor from these scenes came out of puns or metaphors that had to do with well-known activities and body parts of bees.
According to a Lorne Michaels interview for the book Live from New York, "The only note we got from the network on the first show was 'Cut the bees.' And so I made sure I put them in the next show." The bees were played by all the repertory players at the time, who wore yellow and black horizontal stripes, wings, and springy antennas. Like the show itself, it has seen many changes over the years and has a revolving door of anchors, including Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Charles Rocket, Gail Matthius, Brian Doyle-Murray, Mary Gross, Christine Ebersole, Brad Hall, Christopher Guest, Dennis Miller, Kevin Nealon, Norm Macdonald, Colin Quinn, Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Horatio Sanz, Seth Meyers, Cecily Strong, Colin Jost, and Michael Che.įirst characters to recur on SNL. The following is a list of recurring Saturday Night Live sketches, organized by the season and date in which the sketch first appeared.įor an alphabetical list, see Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches (listed alphabetically).Ī satirical news segment starring that is the longest-running recurring sketch in the show's history.
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